‘Green Care’ is a range of activities that promotes physical and mental health and well-being through contact with nature. It utilises farms, gardens and other outdoor spaces as a therapeutic intervention for vulnerable adults and children. Green care includes care farming, therapeutic horticulture, animal assisted therapy and other nature-based approaches. These are now the subject of investigation by researchers from many different countries across the world.
Publication date:
2010
Action:
866
- Pages: 119
- Author(s): J. Sempik, R. Hine and D. Wilcox (eds)
- Publisher(s): Loughborough University
- ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-907382-23-9